After custom intra-lase lasik on both eyes to correct myopia, i suffer from double vision -diplopia- due to exotropia.
Before surgery, because i was slightly overcorrected with my contact lenses, i did not suffer from double vision or exotropia.
The doctors who screened me for lasik failed to check for this or notice the problem, and now, i suffer from severe daily pain, eye strain, and double vision.
Prism lense and vision therapy have thus far not been able to treat the problem successfully.
I also suffer from ghosting which impairs reading and computer work, and night vision problems, including large halos, starbursts, etc.
These were not present a few months after surgery, but have gradually become worse starting at about six months after the lasik and continuing to the present.
Finally, i suffer from dry eye.
Collectively, this has been painful, debilitating, frustrating, and traumatic.
My faith in the country, in humanity, in doctors has suffered a blow.
Many doctors just want to protect lasik, they don't want to help me.
I have quit one job due to the condition and i am struggling to finish a phd program.
I may not be able to continue in the profession i have been trying for half of my life to enter -scholar of literature-.
I suffer from anxiety, depression, and my life isn't the same.
Please help regulate this industry which needs it so badly.
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